Investigation of neutral particle dynamics in Aditya tokamak plasma with DEGAS2 code

Neutral particle behavior in Aditya tokamak, which has a circular poloidal ring limiter at one particular toroidal location, has been investigated using DEGAS2 code. The code is based on the calculation using Monte Carlo algorithms and is mainly used in tokamaks with divertor configuration. This code has been successfully implemented in Aditya tokamak with limiter configuration. The penetration of neutral hydrogen atom is studied with various atomic and molecular contributions and it is found that the maximum contribution comes from the dissociation processes. For the same, H _α spectrum is also simulated and matched with the experimental one. The dominant contribution around 64% comes from molecular dissociation processes and neutral particle is generated by those processes have energy of ∼2.0 eV. Furthermore, the variation of neutral hydrogen density and H_α emissivity profile are analysed for various edge temperature profiles and found that there is not much changes in H _α emission at the plasma edge with the variation of edge temperature (7-40 eV).